![]() “The book an author produces after a wildly popular debut has all eyes on it. “Brosh alternates sorrow with levity-funny childhood stories, more animal tales, and general musings on life and its lack of meaning or fairness-with grace that feels true to life.” Another standout from Brosh that is both heartening and heartbreaking.” In trying to overcome her weaknesses, by spending a night alone in the woods, she reminds us that it’s okay not to be okay. “Through it all, is refreshingly vulnerable and honest. This achingly accurate and consistently hilarious comic memoir finds Brosh moving forward and becoming a stronger, braver storyteller page by page.” spidery and demented digital portraits, a visual expression of fun-house mirror anxiety, fits her material perfectly. ![]() Like a millennial James Thurber, Brosh has a knack for seeding a small, choice detail that snowballs into existential chaos. For Brosh’s millions of fans, this is well worth the wait.” ![]() reliably channels the simplicity of a child or the innocence of an animal and tells raucous, heartbreaking stories that reflect the hidden parts of us all. “Brosh’s storytelling is so distinctive and compelling it’s like suddenly running in to a friend you feared was lost forever. ![]()
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![]() The United States and Canada are well-positioned to successfully navigate these coming demographic shifts-that is, unless growing isolationism leads us to close ourselves off just as openness becomes more critical to our survival than ever. We can already see the effects in Europe and parts of Asia, as aging populations and worker shortages weaken the economy and impose crippling demands on healthcare and social security. ![]() In Empty Planet, John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker find that a smaller global population will bring with it many benefits: fewer workers will command higher wages the environment will improve the risk of famine will wane and falling birthrates in the developing world will bring greater affluence and autonomy for women.īut enormous disruption lies ahead, too. ![]() ![]() Rather than continuing to increase exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline-and in many countries, that decline has already begun. ![]() But a growing number of experts are sounding a different alarm. Print Empty Planet - The Shock of Global Population DeclineĪuthor(s): Darrell Bricker John IbbitsonĪn award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscapeįor half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. ![]() ![]() ![]() In “Caramelo,” Cisneros takes you on a road trip from the American city of Chicago, across the border and to Mexico City, where the protagonist Celaya visits her grandparents every summer. ![]() Many fans sitting in the wooden pews brought copies of Cisneros’ debut novel, “The House on Mango Street,” but what introduced me to the celebrated author was a later work of hers: “Caramelo,” a 2002 novel that has remained relevant because of its theme of Mexican-American identity. There, in a small yet crowded chapel, she recited one of her short stories, read a personal essay and answered questions from the audience. I recently listened to author Sandra Cisneros when she visited my university to discuss her writing. ![]() ![]() Massive tunnels, kilometers deep, will be drilled into the mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth. ![]() ![]() The colonists orbit giant satellite mirrors to reflect light to the surface. For the genetic alchemists, it presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life and death. For others it offers an opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers and Arkady Bogdanov lead a terraforming mission. Now, in 2026, a group of 100 colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. For centuries, Mars has beckoned humans to conquer its hostile climate. ![]() In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of a trilogy chronicling the colonization of Mars.įor eons, sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-397) and index Yet the central lesson of financial history is that, sooner or later, every bubble bursts.-From publisher description The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the world's first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. Through Ferguson's expert lens, for example, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. ![]() ![]() ![]() von Claire Frèches-Thory und Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Die Nabis : Propheten der Moderne, 1993, p. Field, The artistic revival of the woodcut in France : 1850-1900, 1984, p.
![]() ![]() ![]() It really drives home how traumatic these experiences can be for someone who is trans. They mistreat Ella and call her by her deadname, forcing her to wear masculine clothing even. While the stepfamily in the Cinderella story is usually pretty awful they are especially bad in this version of the story. Yeah this one is pretty self explanatory… Tropes: The Stepfamily is Super Bad While there, Ella befriends the princess and begins to fall in love with her as well. This godmother also gives Ella her heart’s desire: to dress up and attend the royal ball as herself, as Ella. She is treated unfairly and cruelly by her stepfamily–with the added use of her deadname in the home–and eventually is comforted by a fairy godmother. Thus Ella’s story follows the traditional hallmarks of the tale. This heartwarming novella is the best modern take on the Cinderella fairy tale I’ve read yet.Ĭinder Ella is a retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale with a black trans woman as the titular role. ![]() And finally she is given the opportunity to dress for a ball, share moments with other women, and even dance with the beautiful princess. ![]() Ella may be a servant in her own home, but at least she knows who she is at heart. She wants to live as a woman, wear feminine clothing, and holds onto her identity even under the horrible treatment of her stepfamily who insist on using her deadname and pronouns. ![]() ![]() I used to love Lon Chaney, and "The Phantom of the Opera" was my favorite movie. The whole idea for The Boy of a Thousand Faces sort of sprang from memories of when I was young and was obsessed with monster movies myself. We talked to him about his monster makeup and monster movies, which are both somewhat connected to his latest book, The Boy of a Thousand Faces.ī: Are you a big monster movie fan?īrian Selznick: Yes, it started when I was a kid. Brian Selznick (pictured, right, drawing underneath an iguanodon in Sydenham, England) seems to have been born to write and illustrate children's books, yet he made a brave attempt at avoiding his destiny by studying theatre and set design.īut he could not long resist the lure of the bright colors, the great authors, and the chance to illustrate all those wonderful stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Synopsis: The Lifecycle of Software Objects is a novella written by Ted Chiang, who has already won many awards for various short stories and novellas that he has released previously. I think my only complaint is the fact that this was a novella and not a full novel. The book does a lot in terms of redefining how we look at many science fiction concepts in a matter than does account for more forward-thinking, or perhaps even more expansive considerations for the implications of technology. But there's so much more to this book than just the story - and I know that sounds a little weird. I mean sure, I'm going to write a brief synopsis in a few paragraphs to cover the basic story, and that's well and good. It's hard to precisely describe what The Lifecycle of Software Objectsis about. ![]() And it sort of gives you a hint of what the book is about since we know there's going to be life and yet also some degree of computer programming. To be fair, the title alone is definitely one of those quirky ones that seem to immediately catch the attention of any geek. The book, well novella, first blipped on my geek radar thanks to the Gawker Media blog, io9. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those five weird years might never have happened. Three trillion dollars was lost to the economy in what became the signature event of the 1990s, while the dotcommers melted away to nowhere, apparent victims of their own hubris and greed. Three months into the new millennium investors, as if waking from a trance, looked down and panicked and in one of the most spectacular financial crashes ever seen, fled the dotcoms until the entire sector had simply.vanished. ![]() And unlike the imagined youth revolutions of the 1950s, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, this one was remaking society for real.īut no. In the ensuing online web-rush all rules of sound finance were abandoned and the unthinkable appeared to be happening: twenty-somethings were taking over. In the space of a week.ĭuring the mid-1990s a group of young people found themselves lords of a new realm called cyberspace. The man Time magazine called 'The Warhol of the Web' was now reduced to the role of helpless spectator as his personal fortune dwindled from 85 million dollars.to 50 million.to almost nothing. ![]() One morning in February 2001, Josh Harris woke to the certain knowledge that he was about to lose everything. The dotcom bubble, its tumultuous crash and the visionary pioneer at its epicenter. ![]() |